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Far-Right Demonstrators Defend The Monuments Of People With Racist Past In UK

4:11pm June 17, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

The attempts to remove statues of people with a slaving or racist past in the U.K. have led to political leaders, nationalists and some far-right groups defending the monuments.

Philonise Floyd speaks via video to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, weeks after the killing of his brother George incited widespread protests against police brutality. U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet looks on behind her fac

George Floyd's Brother To U.N. Human Rights Council: 'I Am Asking You To Help Us'

4:06pm June 17, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

Philonise Floyd calls for a United Nations probe into police brutality in the U.S., which is not part of the council. "I'm asking you to help him," he tells the diplomats. "I'm asking you to help me."

National

Aunt Jemima Will Change Name, Image As Brands Confront Racial Stereotypes

3:50pm June 17, 2020

by Alina Selyukh

Quaker Foods is retiring the name and logo of its 130-year-old pancake and syrup brand. Uncle Ben's and Mrs. Butterworth's also plan to change their packaging and marketing.

The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to lift a moratorium on renaming campus buildings and memorials. About 30 campus buildings are thought to have namesakes with ties to white supremacy or slavery.

UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Lift 16-Year Moratorium On Renaming Campus Buildings

2:41pm June 17, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The freeze on renaming any campus buildings or monuments was implemented by the board in 2015, after it voted to change the name of a classroom building named for a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.

Katrina Cotton, center, of Houston poses for a photo Monday with her daughter, Kennedy Cotton, 7, at the Black Wall Street Memorial in Tulsa, Okla.

Judge Denies Request To Force Coronavirus Safety Measures At Trump's Tulsa Rally

2:17pm June 17, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

The lawsuit says the rally, which is to take place at a 19,000-seat indoor arena, could act as a superspreader event for the coronavirus.

In this June 19, 2015, file photo, the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. lead a crowd of people in prayer outside the Emanuel AME Church, after a memorial service for the nine people killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, S.C.

5 Years After Charleston Church Massacre, What Have We Learned?

2:04pm June 17, 2020

by Debbie Elliott

In 2015, a white supremacist murdered nine worshippers at a historic African American church in South Carolina. The heinous tragedy prompted a racial reckoning that has lessons for today,

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Five Years After Charleston Church Shooting, America Reckons With Racial Injustice

6:59am June 17, 2020

by Debbie Elliott

It's been five years since a white supremacist murdered nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, S.C. The racial reckoning it prompted holds lessons for today's outcry over police brutality.

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'Soul Sister': A Look Back At The Fraught Attempt At Empathy

6:28pm June 16, 2020

by Sarah Kate Kramer

Grace Halsell, a white journalist, wanted to understand the black experience, so she darkened her skin and moved to the South. Her 1969 book, Soul Sister, documented the experience.

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A mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, originally created for the military, displayed in 2013 by a sheriff's department official in Warren County, N.Y.

Twin Cities Area Police Forces Loaded Up On War Surplus Under President Trump

5:33pm June 16, 2020

by David Welna

Many law enforcement agencies in suburban Minneapolis and St. Paul that policed protests are recent entrants to a decades-old Pentagon program of transferring military gear to cops.

Then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (center) takes a knee during the playing of the national anthem before a game between the Atlanta Falcons and the 49ers on Dec. 18, 2016, in Atlanta.

Roger Goodell On Colin Kaepernick's Possible Return to NFL: 'I Welcome That'

4:56pm June 16, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

The NFL commissioner's comments come in an interview with ESPN. In recent days the commissioner has apologized for the league "not listening to NFL players earlier" on issues of racial injustice.